Music Players

Hello guys,
I’m looking for a music player, I have checked some wikis but none of those give me their personal opinion of the music players thus I would like to know your experience. Currently I am using musikcube as I just though it would look since since it can use your terminal colorscheme and I have also used Cue.
Anyway, what music player would you recommend for someone who has thousands of songs and wishes to create playlists seamlessly. Thanks in advance

Edit: Gave most of your recommendations a fair shot. In the end I decided to go for MPD + Ymuse since it was exactly what I needed plus Ymuse is gtk so its automatically themed for me. Thank You All Guys!
fair to say I was Ymused…

harsh3466,

Currently running Navidrome on my server and using substreamer on mobile, with the webui on desktop.

cirdanlunae,

I’m a huge fan of LMS (Lyrion Music Server, formerly Logitech Media Server, formerly Slimserver, formerly…)

Fantastic piece of software. The server can run on a first gen Raspberry Pi and handle 100k+ tracks like it’s nobody’s business

airikr,

I found QMMP few years ago. As a fan of Winamp, I haven’t looked back yet. QMMP is compatible with Winamp skins too.

mojofrododojo,

That is nice, tyvm!

originalucifer,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

thats actually what this is, qmmp

Azzk1kr,

Wow I forgot I once made a DragonBall Z skin for winamp. It’s still there :D Blast from the past!!

Unmapped,

I tried quite a few. ncmpcpp was cool, but I settled on using plexamp since I can use it on phone and desktop. I’ve been super happy with it, and they made it free a while back. So now my friends use it too and we can share our Plex music libraries.

takeheart,

I much like Quod Libet. It has a clean, functional interface to manage your local music collection. Also support for Plugins is nice.

You can create Boolean Logic filters like (played < 10 times AND genre = classical AND composer = Mozart) which I appreciate. And some of the included tools like being able to automatically create meta data tags from file names (for instance <artist> - <album> - <track>.mp3).

It’s the best replacement for Music Bee (Windows only) that I’ve come across.

gaylord_fartmaster,

I started using fooyin recently, and it’s good enough to have replaced running foobar2000 in WINE for me.

nfsu2,
@nfsu2@feddit.cl avatar

oh, Its in the AUR… nice!!

dino,

What is the appeal, I understand fb2k was the shit back in the days. But nowadays I want a music player with elegant defaults instead of customization?

gaylord_fartmaster,

Different strokes. If I preferred using software that was just good enough out of the box over something I can customize to my exact liking then I probably wouldn’t be using Linux in the first place, or at least not the way I do in general.

Beyond that, having it be customizable means other people can change it to their liking and share that configuration, and maybe I’d experiment with it and find something I didn’t even know I wanted.

dino,

That sounds like an excuse to waste lifetime. A good UI should be what makes or breaks an audio player. If I have to enter text queries to play songs this might work after I configured a script which handles all the shit I want to do OR the UI is in itself easy to use so I don’t need to go to that length.

HouseWolf,

I’ve tried a few and settled on Audacious.

It’s pretty basic overall but it allows you to use original Winamp skins which I love!

Sickday,
@Sickday@kbin.run avatar

I use Plexamp on my phone, but I use ncmpcpp and mpd on my towers and laptop. I think both players suite my purposes well.

troyunrau,
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca avatar

No one commenting on your playlist? You’re cathartic music experience is showing :)

nfsu2,
@nfsu2@feddit.cl avatar

oh man, that not even my “Today I’m feeling overwhelmed by my emotions so I cue my emotional playlist till I figure out a rational plan” But thanks anyway :)

pimeys,
@pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io avatar

Plex and plexamp are quite good. Jellyfin and finamp too.

Kualk,

Jellyfin has mobile and desktop clients.

For me for a long time it was a coin toss between Plex and Jellyfin.

For some long forgotten reason I ended with Emby and eventually migrated to Jellyfin as its true free open source fork.

With jellyfin DLNA server i can play same music on Apple TV, etc. although DLNA clients are certainly not as nice as native apps. One can offset problem with playlists.

Both have quick start wiki pages like this: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Jellyfin

Official documentation: jellyfin.org/docs/

eya,
@eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I use Strawberry personally.

bleistift2,

The website is quite tight-lipped regarding features. What’s a ‘smart playlist’?

Takios,
@Takios@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

You can set certain filters and it will automatically fill the playlist with tracks matching those filters. For example I have a smart playlist set to contain all tracks that I rated 3 stars or higher.

HakFoo,

There are some canned choices like “50 newest tracks”.

OneRedFox,
@OneRedFox@beehaw.org avatar

If there’s any other Cantata enjoyers reading this thread while feeling sad that it’s not maintained anymore, Strawberry is the closest alternative.

Takios,
@Takios@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I’d been using Cantata for many years but recently switched to Strawberry. It’s pretty good, the dynamic playlist feature is the closest I have found to cantata’s though it still behaves a bit differently in details which is a bit annoying :/

OneRedFox,
@OneRedFox@beehaw.org avatar

I too have noticed a number of minor behavioral differences that I’ve found annoying, but it is what it is. This was the closest I could find to an active fork of Cantata, but nothing has been released at this time, though the dev has expressed interest in a Qt6 port.

originalucifer,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

cant beat the llamas ass

i dont believe in streaming of any kinda, my data is local

teawrecks,

This is what a NAS + Plex/Jellyfin is for.

originalucifer,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

uhg plex? no way. i cant imagine any self hosters choosing plex

nfsu2,
@nfsu2@feddit.cl avatar

I don’t know why but this made me want to play that Windows pinball game like the old times

Rustmilian,
@Rustmilian@lemmy.world avatar

That space pinball game thing? It’s available on Linux, I saw it in the AUR a few months ago.

nfsu2,
@nfsu2@feddit.cl avatar

god bless the AUR

boredsquirrel, (edited )

Its also on Flathub. I think it is a WINE wrapper

LunarLoony,
@LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

It was reimplemented a couple of years ago - don’t have a link to hand but it’s on GitHub - so it’s likely to be native.

atzanteol,

It’s been downhill since winamp (UI wise).

acockworkorange,

You can still use Winamp skins on Audacious, like me.

richieadler,

I’m partial to AIMP

Kualk,

Jellyfin, i own my streaming

Gazumi,

If you use a DAC, I can recommend Strawberry for the USB to DAC support.

Railcar8095,

What does strawberry different in such case?

Gazumi,

Its the Hi-res direct output to your DAC. Its under Settings - Backend. It’s Clementine reworked to allow this. If you don’t use a DAC in your setup, there is no real advantage.

phoh,

i like cmus.

Dreyns,

I’m using Clementine for now it has nice management features, it’s overall pretty great. Only downside is that some minor gestures are broken and the UI is not really pretty ’

nfsu2,
@nfsu2@feddit.cl avatar

yep, it does not have the looks. hehe, seems alright to me though.

Murdoc,

I’ve been using Clementine because it’s the only one I’ve found that lets me (easily) rate my songs. But I can always check out others if they can do that. I wish I could find one where the lyrics loaded automatically.

kirbowo808,
kirbowo808 avatar

I would personally recommend Strawberry if anything since development of Clementine has been dead for a long while now, whilst it’s also of fork of Clementine too with frequent updates.

Dreyns,

Oohhh i’ll surely check this out ! Thanks ! (I prefer strawberrys to Clementines anyway)

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